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Legal Services

Program code
ISS03 (SC)
Core responsibility
Internal Services
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Legal services involve activities undertaken to enable government departments and agencies to pursue policy, program and service delivery priorities and objectives within a legally sound framework. Activities include the provision of the following services: legal advisory, litigation and legislative services.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Legal Services 2018-19: $382KLegal Services 2019-20: $402KLegal Services 2020-21: $256KLegal Services 2021-22: $476KLegal Services 2022-23: $238KLegal Services 2023-24: $139KLegal Services 2024-25: $289KLegal Services 2025-26: $400KLegal Services 2026-27: $300KLegal Services 2027-28: $300KLegal Services 2028-29: $300KLegal ServicesLegal Service…Legal Services
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data. The line at the bottom shows this program's names over time.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Legal ServicesThis program2018-19 – 2028-29$2.2M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Renamed from “Legal Service - Statistics Canada” to “Legal Services”.GC InfoBase program names by year

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $378K2018-19: $382K2018-192019-20: $378K2019-20: $402K2019-202020-21: $421K2020-21: $256K2020-212021-22: $367K2021-22: $476K2021-222022-23: $403K2022-23: $238K2022-232023-24: $476K2023-24: $139K2023-242024-25: $461K2024-25: $289K2024-252025-26: $400K2025-262026-27: $300K2026-272027-28: $300K2027-282028-29: $300K2028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$378K$382K
2019-20$378K$402K
2020-21$421K$256K
2021-22$367K$476K
2022-23$403K$238K
2023-24$476K$139K
2024-25$461K$289K
2025-26$400K—
2026-27$300K—
2027-28$300K*—
2028-29$300K*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 02018-19: 02018-192019-20: 02019-20: 02019-202020-21: 02020-21: 02020-212021-22: 02021-22: 02021-222022-23: 02022-23: 02022-232023-24: 02023-24: 02023-242024-25: 02024-25: 02024-252025-26: 02025-262026-27: 02026-272027-28: 02027-282028-29: 02028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-1900
2019-2000
2020-2100
2021-2200
2022-2300
2023-2400
2024-2500
2025-260—
2026-270—
2027-280*—
2028-290*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29
2018-19 plan$378,155$378,155$378,155
2019-20 plan$378,155$378,155$378,155
2020-21 plan$421,135$421,135$421,135
2021-22 plan$366,830$366,830$366,830
2022-23 plan$402,825$402,825$402,825
2023-24 plan$475,514$475,514$475,514
2024-25 plan$460,729$463,444$463,844
2025-26 plan$400,000$400,000$400,000
2026-27 plan$300,000$300,000$300,000
Actual$382,174$401,582$256,354$475,514$237,664$139,148$289,258

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.